Romney: Obama Engaged In "Character Assassination"
CRAWFORD: Governor Romney, a lot of your conservative supporters are getting anxious, they're imploring you, I've heard your supporters on the rope line, they're telling you, "Be ruthless, be more aggressive." Do you think you haven't been aggressive enough? Do you plan on being more aggressive?
ROMNEY: This is a campaign, not about character assassination, even though that's what I think has come from the Obama camp by and large.
CRAWFORD: Character assassination? Do you think the Obama camp engaged in character assassination?
ROMNEY: Oh yeah, sure, they try and completely misrepresent my point of view, along with why I'm in this race, but I think fundamentally the American people are interested in who can make their life better? Who can make people get better jobs and better incomes. And I can. He's proven that he does not have the capability to do that. I do, I've proven that throughout my career. I think that's what it's going to come down to, so I listen to a lot of advice but frankly I'm going to keep on my message, which is I know how to get this economy going, create jobs, more take home pay for the American people.
CRAWFORD: What do you think, I mean, we hear this over and over again from your conservative supporters, be more aggressive. What do you think they mean by that, why are the feeling that frustration, that anxiety?
ROMNEY: Well, I can't speak for the viewpoints of all the commentators, and people I meet from place to place. Some people say, "Just be who you are!" Others say, "Get tougher! Attack!" And my own view is this; I'm going to be who I am and describe why I think I'm the person who's going to become the next president of the United States, and how my policies will make life better for American families. You've got a lot of single moms wondering how to put food on the table at the end of the week. You've got a lot of people can't find work. That's the group of people I want to speak to. And that's why I think I'll be successful.
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